Community Baptist Church
Community Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1346 7th Street in Des Moines, IA 50314. It is one of 356 churches in Des Moines, and one of 37 Baptist congregations in the city.
1346 7th Street, Des Moines, IA, 50314Community Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 596 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Iowa — 71,417 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Community Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Obesity: 49.8%
- Food Insecurity: 44.8%
- Social Isolation: 40.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 39.0%
- Poverty Rate: 32.8% (20.8–44.8%)
- Housing Insecurity: 30.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 23.6%
- Diabetes: 20.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.8%
- Child Poverty: 31.7% (12.6–50.9%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.0% (8.0–22.0%)
- Unemployment: 7.8% (0.1–15.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Des Moines city is served by 226 churches — about one congregation for every 950 residents.
Churches near Community Baptist Church
- The Salvation Army Des Moines Temple — 0.1 mi away
- Bethel Mission — 0.1 mi away
- Mount Hebron Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity Las Americas United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Mission Temple — 0.3 mi away
- Iglesia Nuevo Renacer En Cristo — 0.4 mi away
- Our Savior's Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- New Friendship Church of God in Christ — 0.4 mi away
- New Jerusalem Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Paul African Methodist Church — 0.6 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Mount Hebron Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Our Savior's Full Gospel Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Corinthian Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Sweet Home Deliverance Church — 1 mi away
- Calvary Chapel — 1.3 mi away